“Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, “Everybody’s got something.”
The book is truly an inspirational one as it will teach you while moving on in your life. Penned down by Robin Roberts with the assistance of Veronica Chamber (co-author of Yes, Chef, 2012, etc) the novel Eveybody’s has something and has put across a crucial phase of her life and records her struggles with Myelodysplastic syndrome, which is a rare state that affects the blood and bone marrow.
The author is a renowned news broadcaster, who has worked at Sportscenter and is now one of the anchors in Good Morning America. In this book, the author has represented a part of her life around the year 2007. As in 2007, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she fought with it very successfully and underwent through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. After that she was cured from this deadly disease, five years later, after returning from her news assignment covering the Academy Awards of 2012, she got to learn that chemotherapy had resulted in some sort of leukemia known as MDS. She learnt that if she would not undergo bone marrow transplant, her projected life was declared as two years. In her journey of life, he searched for compatible donor and got prepared for the transplant, along with the pain of her aging mother’s health which began to gravely deteriorate.
The author bravely faced her misfortunes with an athlete’s mentality and showed her strength which helped her to stand against both her disease and the loss of her mother. The author of the novel has narrated well about her struggles and this clearly is reflected in her narration, which rarely swerves toward melodrama or self-pity.
The transplantation process has been described in detail along with its aftermath, which has made it among the most intimate part in the book. The author has struggled hard with her pain and loss, still managed to maintain her positivity which inspires the readers to give their life, such an outlook, no matter what life brings into your life, testing your patience.
However, the author has put the struggles and experiences of her life into words with her best efforts in order to inspire sympathy and compassion, the readers have reminded of her status as a celebrity, which resulted in keeping the essence of the novel at an arm’s length. The sections involving Roberts’ family, partly counter this problem, since it is in these scenes that she becomes any daughter, any sister, any lover, struggling with a life-threatening disease.
The author states “If there’s one thing that spending a year fighting for your life against a rare and insidious…disease will teach you,” she further writes, “it’s that time is not to be wasted.”
At-times motivational chronicle about a battle in a journalist’s life with a serious and a critical disease, along with the pain of loosing her mother and dealing with situations.
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